UID:
edocfu_9958351692902883
Format:
1 online resource (367 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2004. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780231504409
Content:
Through fiction, memoir, music, and art, this book offers a glimpse of the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American culture. The book features contributions from such writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Judaic studies.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Sleeping in My Parents’ Hotel: The End of a Century of the Jewish Catskills /
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Jewish Farmers of the Catskills /
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Hotels and the Holocaust /
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The Catskills at the End of World War II /
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Introduction --
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The Yearning Heifer /
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Grine Felder—A Place in the Country /
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Bingo by the Bungalow /
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Bungalow Colony Life /
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Bungalow Stories /
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Introduction --
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Dinner at the Rigi Kulm House /
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Old Stock /
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Young Workers in the Hotels /
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The Pool /
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Growing Up at Grossinger’s /
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Five and Three House /
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Reflections on the Delmar Hotel and the Demise of the Catskills /
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Introduction --
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Comics, Singers, and Tummlers /
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The Social Director at the Adult Summer Camp /
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The Casino /
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The Fine Art of Mountain Tummling /
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Yener Welt—music and lyrics /
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Shoot the Shtrudel to Me, Yudel!—music and lyrics /
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Introduction --
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Miss Tevkin /
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Forbidden Fruit /
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Marjorie at South Wind /
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Amy Lourie /
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Introduction --
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Bungalow Summer: The Catskills, New York /
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The Shul in Kaaterskill Falls /
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Introduction --
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Eating at the Hotel /
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The Catskills Remembered /
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Bungalow /
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Annotated Bibliography --
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Hotels of the Catskills --
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Bungalow Colonies of the Catskills.
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/brow12360